Spammers/Gil Sellers

[MidnightSky]

Adamantoise -> SO MANY GIL SELLERS!

Ifrit -> None.

Why is it so different? I need to block shout, yell, and tell on Adamantoise to even play the game. So yeah, no one can whisper me :/

fyi: Those Gil sellers are using bots. How else do they spam people tells without really clicking on them?

[Metalplosion]

Every time I go into a major city I'm hit with a WALL of text. I'm can't speak for everyone but for me this it totally ruining my MMO experience. If I wanted to play a game by myself and not chat with others I have a lot more options I play an MMO because I like interacting with other people. and before someone tells me how to black list I know how to do so in fact I have over 30 spammers on there so far.

[allnutty]

if you right click the name and select tell it will bring up their name for you to copy past (CTL C - CTL V). This should save you from having to type their name.

[NZ_Player]

Every time I go into a major city I'm hit with a WALL of text. I'm can't speak for everyone but for me this it totally ruining my MMO experience. If I wanted to play a game by myself and not chat with others I have a lot more options I play an MMO because I like interacting with other people. and before someone tells me how to black list I know how to do so in fact I have over 30 spammers on there so far.

my sentiments exactly


the handling of this RMT issue is incredibly bad, they are acting like its their first rodeo
the development team needs an award, the marketing and community teams need to be fired

[allnutty]

Enlarging the chat window can help a little.

[Dieadre]

What I find ironic is that the gold spammers are still able to create more characters and that SE is only deleting their characters and not banning their accounts.

I'm really curious how you know that. If it's true it is a travesty! I want all Gill spammers tracked down IRL and sent to the south pole with no internet to live in a special place they've earned the right to live in! (and they can never return! >.< )

[Astrolia]

Even automatically deleting the name from your blacklist once said character is eventually banned/deleted would be helpful.

Yes, I believe WoW had a "player no longer exists" when you logged in and that character....no longer existed.

Also, Yes. We need the ability to simply right click on the person's name and select "spamming". And also, Yes. We should not have our blacklist counted against. It should simply block all future messages automatically (once clicking spammer). And honestly, if the cap is truly 200 I would hope that SE would put in some things in place before I cap out the blacklist with spammers....In 5 years of playing wow, I probably only blocked 15-20 players total.

[carlos777uk]

Or how about this novel approach - SE employ some GM's?!?!?!?!?!

Really, how tight are their budgets that they can't afford a dozen people to trawl two or three worlds each over the course of an evening and just ban every account they see spamming gold selling.

It beggars belief that this wasn't implemented from the off.

[carlos777uk]

Blocking someone so that you don't see their text is burying your head in the sand.

What about those that do use these services and are ruining the economy in game. The sellers and botters will soon give up if a live GM banned 20 accounts in the space of an hour.

[Gintenshikun]

I'm not a big fan of getting hit with a wall of spam when I walk into a city, or getting beeped every five minutes by someone sending me a private message to buy their gils. The biggest trouble is trying to grab a name when there are 5 sellers in one place and blisting them one by one by copy/past. A spam/blist option would be lovely. To avoid accidentally getting someone that's just a pain in the general behind like area, there could at least be a little pop up saying [Is this a Spammer or General D-Bag?]... or [Do you believe this person violating SE Policy Y/N]... I guess the second one would be more professional.